what happend to the cr?

It used to be worse. When it started in 2008 it was full of Beis Yaakov girls chatting up a storm about every narishkeit imaginable and unimaginable.

Goldilocks – Great answer!!

Coffee – I think his posts kind of prove him to be both new and a bachur. And knowing why he has all this free time makes me feel better 🙂

I think the real answer to his question though is that the CR was one of the few moderated places to go to talk to other frum people and back then, I hate to say the truth, but people cared about what they exposed themselves to more than now. People send around not so appropriate memes that they never would have forwarded years back. They “skip over” nivel peh and topics that would never have been given their attention in the past. Anyone who reads comments on articles (anywhere) is exposing themselves to tons that most of us would never have considered letting into our heads 10 years ago.

So back when there was no whatsapp and people were more careful about what they read we had the CR for connecting and schmoozing. People now have whatsapp groups giving their phone numbers away like it ‘s nothing. Times have changed (unfortunately)

And last piece, I think, was the twitter damage. People used to have conversations. Even pig headed, narrow minded ones. Things evolved over time to people throwing pot shots, responses, put downs at each other. We take up a cause and get ready for battle. If you compare even the angry threads from before that time, it is so much different than the machine gun style, spit your piece out to the world type of “communicating”, sometimes on three different forums at the same time.
Not everyone does this obviously, not every conversation is like this, but it is definitely a very huge shift from before. People have causes, defend their teams. It used to be like that in the zionist/anti zionist threads but all others were more conversationalistic. Now….

I miss AYC and Middlepath..
Now it’s just Joseph having conversations with himself under a million different usernames.

And I miss too many to name… but I particularly liked reading bp totty , oomis and golfer because they seemed to be my age.

I miss the GAON who was very knowledgeable in psak.

feivel doesn’t come by often enough. sam4321s missed. squeak hasn’t shown his face in too long. I Can Only Try has been gone too long. PM/hello99 is a choshuve Rov (in the full sense) who freely shares his halachic expertise. mdlevine is loved by all. Kapusta, smartcookie and Lilmod Ulelamaid always have much wisdom to share.

There are too many others in our friends and CR family list who equally deserve recognition to be mentioned. Consider yourselves included and rejoin the discussions ASAP! No more excuses for being AWOL.

And special mention to itzik_s/600 Kilo Bear Z”L who never failed to make excellent points others overlooked and always did so with his signature humor. We will meet him again with Moshiach bimheiro byomeinu.

My brother Shlita? He ל”ע works ח”ו. Two and a half jobs. And learns full time. I never told you (or anyone here) this, he’s brilliant!

Whats App is a factor as well. You can easily communicate and debate in large groups without it being posted on the internet for the world to see.

Alizgitt- first, Hello! Nice to see you.
I did mention whatsapp and you are so right. I’ve never understood giving so many strangers your phone number tho. And accompanying life status updates via your picture.